With or without Wordpress

Question

Good afternoon, I am working... well, actually, studying PHP and would like to work with the Brazilian laws.

I know the work is hard, but I’m slowly getting.

But, I do not know if I use wordpress as the basis of the site or if I do only with php.

I want the site to show the laws with a better formatting, to make it easier to understand their hierarchy, and other features that I hope to be able to implement.

For example, when viewing any article, the site will inform which law it is dealing with, in which chapter it is inserted.

Does anyone have any opinions or suggestions?

Answer 1

I would particularly create my own program, with the features I wish for, where I wish. But as you said you are still "studying" PHP, Wordpress should fall like a glove, because it will greatly reduce your work, because creating your own CMS is something very good, but it requires a certain degree of knowledge not to do "bullshit", the good use of OO, PDO (with Prepared statements) and a good MVC project, not to be a "disorganized system".

Already with Wordpress, you have great plugins, and if you already know something PHP can create your own plugins for the purposes you require. So my simple advice is:

If you want speed and features ready, go from Worpress, now if you want something more "tough" with more 'complex' features then make your own CMS, but remember, I advise you to know what you are doing if you choose the last option.

Then it’s up to you! Good Luck!

Answer 2

If you are going to deal with hierarchical content and if they are quite numerous, I would use wordpress, or some other CMS. Think that, if not, you have to build all the query logic to your content, and this can take time. Try modeling your problem using wordpress logic, and see if it is advantageous or not